HMS Spica (T121)


HMS Spica at sea.
Career (Sweden)
Builder: Götaverken AB
Launched: 24 June 1966
Decommissioned: 1989
General characteristics
Displacement: 210 tons
Length: 42.5 m
Beam: 7.1 m
Draught: 2.6 m
Propulsion: Three Bristol-Siddeley 4,250 HP gas-turbines driving 3 hydraulically controllable pitch screws
Speed: 40 knots+
Complement: 30
Armament: Bofors 57 mm gun, 6× 533 mm (21.0 in) wire-guided torpedoes, 2× 7.62 mm machine guns, Flare and chaff rockets, naval mines and/or depth charges

HMS Spica (T121) is a former Swedish Navy torpedo-armed fast attack craft (FAC), now a museum ship at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

The vessel was one of three constructed in the 1960s by Götaverken AB on Hisingen, the other two being HMS Sirius (T122) and HMS Capella (T123). Three similar vessels were built by Karlskronavarvet.

The vessel was taken out of service in 1989 and made into a museum ship at the Naval Museum in her former home port of Karlskrona until 2002.

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